{"id":12445,"date":"2024-05-31T09:21:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T13:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=12445"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:47:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:47:20","slug":"michael-sabia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/michael-sabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Sabia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Michael Sabia\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"126\" height=\"159\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Michael-Sabia.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12446\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Businessman Michael Sabia will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 9 30 a m ceremony on Thursday, June 10, in recognition of outstanding leadership in corporate social responsibility and community investment &#8220;<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally from St Cathartines, Ontario, Michael Sabia was named head of the Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec in March 2009 following a successful career in business and the federal public service. Upon completing his undergraduate studies in economics and politics at Trinity College at the University of Toronto and his graduate studies at Yale University, he held several senior positions with the Government of Canada during the 1980s and early 1990s, including director general of tax policy in the Department of Finance In the early 1990s. Mr Sabia was<br>\nenlisted to help privatize the Canadian National Railway. As its executive vice-president and chief financial officer he was instrumental in taking the railway public in 1995 and positioning it as a North American carrier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1999 Mr Sabia joined Bell Canada Enterprises and became chief executive in 2002 and led the company into new technical fields. He left Bell Canada in 2008, committed to community and an advocate of education and skills development. Mr Sabia has been a member of the board of trustees of the Hospital for Sick Children campaign chair for Centraide in Montreal chai of the Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative implementation Accessory Board and a member of the North America Competitiveness Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j-tmyGr-Owo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY OF Michael Sabia<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman Michael Sabia will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 9 30 a m ceremony on Thursday, June 10, in recognition of outstanding leadership in corporate social responsibility and community investment &#8220; Originally from St Cathartines, Ontario, Michael Sabia was named head of the Caisse de depot et placement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":340,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-12445","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13510,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12445\/revisions\/13510"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=12445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}